Shopping News reports what changes at the till: sale event dates, price increases, quietly reduced package sizes, restocks and shortages. Items are filed ahead of an event where possible, not the morning after it ends. Aimed at readers who plan purchases around the retail calendar.
No federal rule forces a retailer to take an item back. Here's what Target, Macy's, and Nordstrom actually commit to, and how to check any store's real policy before you buy.
A struck-through "was" price is a claim about what one seller recently charged — not a fact about what an item is worth.
A retailer's "was" price is only a legitimate discount baseline if it was the actual, regularly charged price for a reasonably substantial stretch of time — not a number invented to make a markdown look bigger.
Announced July 14, 2026, the FTC's settlement with CVS's Caremark is the second major deal with a drug middleman this year — and it sketches how prescription prices might finally drift down.
Amazon's four-day June 23–26 event drew $26.4 billion in US online spending, up 9.3 percent, per Adobe data reported by Reuters on June 27 — proof that the calendar matters less than the discounts.
Reuters' May 19, 2026 analysis of the biggest US retailer's tariff year shows scale, online growth and new loyalty fees carrying it through cost pressure its rivals passed straight to prices.